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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.

Sri Aurobindo

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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Cleaning Divine Empty
To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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Courage Development Doubt Experience See
The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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Action Command Expression Intution Talk Way
India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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Age Beginning External Ignorance Life Power Reason
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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Aspiration Calm Quiet State Wait
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Beyond Knowledge Known
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
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Human Politics Recover Source Strength World
While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
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Active Capacity Mindset Silence Time
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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Awakening Conscious Existence Poverty Society
The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
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Fly Freedom Honey Sweet Touch Wings
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success

Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.

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